WO1991010474A1 - Ensemble fibroptique de lentille submersible - Google Patents

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WO1991010474A1
WO1991010474A1 PCT/US1990/006472 US9006472W WO9110474A1 WO 1991010474 A1 WO1991010474 A1 WO 1991010474A1 US 9006472 W US9006472 W US 9006472W WO 9110474 A1 WO9110474 A1 WO 9110474A1
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Leroy M. Wood
Donn Boyle
William R. Potter
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    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
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    • A61B18/00—Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body
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    • A61B18/22—Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body by applying electromagnetic radiation, e.g. microwaves using laser the beam being directed along or through a flexible conduit, e.g. an optical fibre; Couplings or hand-pieces therefor
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    • G02B6/32—Optical coupling means having lens focusing means positioned between opposed fibre ends
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  • the present invention relates to a submersible lens fiberoptic assembly for use in a biological ' environment, and especially to a submersible ball lens fiberoptic assembly for photodynamic therapy treatments (hereinafter referred to as PDT) for transferring radiation from an optical fiber to surrounding tissue.
  • PDT photodynamic therapy treatments
  • Figure 1A shows an arrangement known as a cylindrical diffuser.
  • a cylindrical optical element 11 is butted against an optical fiber 12, and functions to cylindrically diffuse light coupled into it via the optical fiber.
  • Figure IB shows a prior an arrangement known as a spherical diffuser.
  • a spherical optical element In this, a spherical optical element
  • FIG. 3C A third prior art arrangement is shown in Figure 3C, this being an arrangement known as a submersible microlens.
  • a housing 16 encloses a miniature lens
  • the end of an optical fiber 19 is positioned at the back focal point of the lens 17.
  • the location of the back focal point of the lens is influenced by the index of refraction of the lens and of the medium in contact with the lens and • the optical fiber surface.
  • the back focal point is fixed by sealing the fiber and lens in air through use of the housing 16 and window or cover plate 18.
  • the ideal assembly for coupling radiation from an optical fiber into tissue is one which produces a highly divergen beam of light whose cross section everywhere, in air or water, is a magnified image of the optical fiber end or face. While the arrangement of Figure 1C does achieve many of these objectives, the construction is complicated and accordingly expensive to manufacture.
  • a submersible lens fiberoptic assembly for use in a biological environment, especially in PDT treatments, has an optical fiber with an end for emitting light energy, a fiber jacket for fixing and protecting the optical fiber, a lens made of zirconia for transferring the light beam and controlling the beam divergence, and a housing for fixing the fiber jacket and the lens.
  • zirconia has good properties of resisting mechanical and thermal shock, there is no need to use a window as in the case of the prior art.
  • the lens is a ball lens
  • the fiber jacket and housing is in a threaded connection so that the distance between the optical fiber face and the ball lens, can be adjusted by simply rotating the housing on the jacket.
  • the assembly Since the lens is a ball shape, the assembly has good divergent and image formation properties.
  • the present invention provides a novel submersible lens fiberoptic assembly for use in PDT treatments using a hemisphere lens with its spherical surface facing the optical fiber end for transferring the light beam to areas which are inaccessible to a normal "forward looking" lens.
  • FIGS 1A, IB and 1C show three different types of prior art assemblies used for light delivery in PDT treatments.
  • Figure 2 shows a preferred embodiment of the submersible ball lens fiberoptic assembly of the present invention.
  • Figure 3 is a schematic ray diagram of a 1mm zirconia ball lens in air of the submersible ball lens fiberoptic assembly of the present invention.
  • Figure 4. ⁇ shows schematically the ray trace of the output beam of a 1mm zirconia ball lens in air.
  • Figure 5 is a diagram of the light distribution across a spot at 4.1 cm from a 1mm diameter zirconia ball lens of the submersible ball lens fiberoptic assembly of the present invention.
  • Figure 6 is a schematic ray diagram of an 0.8mm diameter zirconia ball lens in air of present invention.
  • Figure 7 is a schematic ray diagram of an 0.6mm diameter zirconia ball lens in air of the present invention.
  • Figure 8a shows schematically the changes of light beam diameter with respect to distance from the lens for lmm, 0.8mm and 0.6mm zirconia ball lenses in water and in air of the present submersible ball lens fiberoptic assembly.
  • Figure 8b shows schematically the changes of- light beam diameter with respect to distance from lens for lmm, 0.8mm and 0.6mm zirconia ball lenses in air of the present submersible ball lens fiberoptic assembly.
  • Figures 9A, 9B and 9C show schematically three different arrangements of another preferred embodiment of the present invention which can deliver the light beam to the treatment areas inaccessible to a "forward looking" lens.
  • Figure 10 shows schematically an embodiment of the housing having a top cover portion used in a side looking submersible lens fiberoptic assembly of the present invention.
  • a preferred embodiment of the submersible lens fiberoptic assembly of the present invention includes a ball lens 20, an optical fiber 21 having a fiber jacket 22 and a cylindrical housing 23.
  • the ball lens 20 is preferably made of zirconia because of its mechanical, thermal and optical properties. Specifically, zirconia is a very hard material. If a zirconia ball is placed on a lab table and struck with a carpenter's hammer, for example, the table top acquires a dent, but there is no visible damage to the ball. . This ability to withstand rough handling simplifies the assembly procedure.
  • the cylindrical housing 23 can be made of metal, such as brass. One end of the metal housing is drilled to take the press-fitted ball lens 20.
  • the metal housing 23 and the fiber jacket 22 are preferably threadedly coupled so that the distance between the optical fiber face and the ball lens can be adjusted precisely by simply rotating the housing 23.
  • the pressfit and the tight thread on the fiber jacket make a water tight seal to the air chamber (generally indicated by reference numeral 24) on the input side of the ball. Care must be taken to insure that this, volume is free of particles during assembly since the ball lens produces an enlarged image of particles lying on the face of the fiber.
  • the exposed surface of the ball lens 20 needs no special protection or cleaning procedure. This was demonstrated in an experiment wherein a ball lens fiberoptic was coupled to an argon pumped dye laser and submerged in a test tube of human blood. The dye laser power was increased until the blood adjacent to the lens surface was boiling vigorously. The ball lens fiberoptic was withdrawn and allowed to "smoke.” The baked blood was scraped from the lens surface with a knife edge and the surface was wiped clean with an alcohol soaked gauze. The focused spot using this ball lens appeared to be the same as before the test.
  • the ball lens 20 is a lmm diameter precision optical sphere made of zirconia, and the metal housing or cylinder 23 is drilled through from the opposite end- to take a 120 thread per inch tap. Suitable zirconium spheres are commercially available from Precomp Inc., of Great Neck, New York.
  • the metal housing is threaded into the jacket 22 of a 400 micrometer diameter optical fiber until the polished fiber end is in contact with the sphere, and then backed off one-half turn.
  • the back focal point for the submerged ball lens assembly is 108 micrometers from the surface of the ball lens. This is a half turn of the thread.
  • the back focal point- for the lens in air is inaccessible, being 33 micrometers inside the ball. However, the fiber end is nearly focused in air and appears sharp in water, even if the fiber is in contact with the ball.
  • the ray traces are symmetrical about the optical axis (the line through the center of the sphere and perpendicular to the fiber face). All rays from the fiber having a common direction are focused by the input surface at a point inside the ball. Three such focal points are shown in Figure 3 for the three rays of the cone. This focusing of the rays inside the lens occurs because the lens is spherical, its index of refraction is ' greater than 2, and the input surface of the sphere is in air. The light beam has its smallest diameter inside the sphere. The rays diverge from the focal points and are refracted at the output surface to form a more (in air) or less (in water) rapidly diverging beam.
  • the rays of the output beam near the lens in Figure 3 are extended in Figure 4 into the far field.
  • the points of origin of the rays are indicated by the numbers on the right of the drawing.
  • the rays from any point on the fiber face appear in the output beam as nearly parallel rays and are on the opposite side of the optical axis.
  • the three diverging rays from the top of the fiber in Figure 3 appear in Figure 4 as three nearly parallel rays at the bottom of the beam.
  • any cross section of the beam in the far field of the lens is a magnified, inverted, nearly focused image of the fiber face. Therefore, there is no need for a window on the lens as is the case with the prior art.
  • Approximate but useful expressions can be derived from paraxial ray equations for the output beam divergence and the beam diameter at the output surface of the ball lens. These equations show how physical properties of the fiber, ball lens and medium in which the ball lens is submerged determine output beam parameters.
  • the equations are:
  • N.A. the numerical aperture of the. fiber in air
  • equation (2) A practical application of equation (2) is the calculation of the beam intensity (watts/cm 2 ) at the exposed surface of the ball lens.
  • the beam diameter at the ball surface is 0.23 mm.
  • Eighty milliwatts are required to treat a 1 cm diameter tumor at a power density of 100 mW/cm 2 .
  • the beam intensity at the ball surface calculates to be 190 watts/cm 2 , a substantial energy flux.
  • the beam intensity drops to 100 mW/cm 2 at 11 mm from the lens in air.
  • Figure 5 is a plot of the measured light distribution across a spot at 4.1 cm from a 1 mm ball lens.
  • the ball lens fiber was coupled to a helium-neon laser (633 nm wavelength) whose output was chopped at 1.5 kHz.
  • the instrumentation consisted of a model 4010 Laserguide fiberoptic light guide, a photodetector, an amplifier phase locked to the 1.5 kHz signal, and a digital voltmeter.
  • the light guide is a spherical diffuser normally used in PDT treatments of the bladder. It produces •" a spherically symmetric light field from a 1.7 mm diameter sphere of light diffusing material. Used in reverse it collects light from almost all directions.
  • the illumination is 80% or better of the maximum value. ⁇ over most of the beam cross section. The distribution is not exactly symmetrical because the ball and fiber were not perfectly aligned. The peaks near the center and the edge may be due to multiple reflections.
  • Smaller diameter balls produce beams of greater divergence as shown in Figures 6 and 7, relating respectively to 0.8 mm and 0.6 mm ball lens.
  • the interior focal points- are not as well defined in the 0.6 mm ball lens as in the 1 mm ball lens. This may indicate a fall-off in image quality with increasing curvature of the refractory surface.
  • the trace of the horizontal ray emitted from the edge of the fiber is used to define the output beam size.
  • the angle which this ray makes with the optical axis after refraction at the output surface is the half-angle beam divergence. This ray appears to come from a point on the optical axis close to the output surface of the sphere. Therefore, the beam diameter at any distance from the lens is given by twice the product of this distance and the tangent of the half angle divergence.
  • Beam diameter plots for lmm, 0.8 mm and 0.6 mm ball lenses in water and in air are shown in Figures 8A and 8B, respectively.
  • the full angle of the beam divergence is given next to each curve. These angles are smaller when the ball lens is submerged because water reduces the refraction of rays at the output surface.
  • the measured values for the 1 mm ball lens are in agreement with the theoretical prediction.
  • the Laserguide Microlens Model 5060 has the same divergence as that predicted for an 800 micron diameter ball lens.
  • FIGS 9A, 9B and 9C there is shown another preferred embodiment of the submersible lens fiberoptic system of the present invention which can be used in conjunction with side looking fiberoptic scopes for treatment of areas inaccessible to a "forwarding looking" lens.
  • the lens is a hemisphere lens made of zirconia and its spherical surface faces the optical • fiber end.
  • This type of submersible lens fiberoptic system can produce an output beam at angles up to 120° from the fiber axis. If air is maintained at the plane surface, total internal reflection (TIR) would occur for beam deflection up to 90°. At larger angles a reflective coating would be required.
  • FIG 9.A, 9B and 9C show the different arrangements under which the output beams of the system are at angles 60°, 90° and 120° from the fiber axis, respectively.
  • Figure 10 shows an embodiment of the housing 30 used to fix the fiber jacket 22 and lens 20 of the side looking submersible lens fiberoptic assembly.
  • the housing 30, besides the sleeve configuration 23 discussed in the forward looking assembly, further includes a top cover portion 25 which " has a circular opening 27 on its side functioning as a light output passage, and an air cap 26 fitted on the hemisphere lens 20 to provide an air chamber
  • the top cover portion is preferably made of plastic material such as epoxy.
  • the top cover portion can be formed in the following way.
  • the fiber system and lens with an air cap are first held by an appropriate device and correct alignment of the sphere to the fiber is made.
  • the lens is fixed to the fiber system by a waxing fixture and put into a silicon rubber mold for casting epoxy.
  • the fiber jacket 22 is unscrewed from the assembly and the wax is removed with ether or hot water to provide a air chamber 24 between the lens and fiber.
  • the fiber is cleaned and threaded back to a proper focus for use.

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Un ensemble fibroptique de lentille submersible pour un traitement thérapeutique photodynamique comprend une fibre optique (21), un manchon de fibre (22), une lentille globulaire (20) en zircone et une enveloppe (23). L'ensemble fibroptique est simple, présente des coûts de fabrication raisonnables et possède une qualité élevée de faisceau lumineux de sortie. Un ensemble fibroptique de lentille submersible pour des traitements thérapeutiques photodynamiques fait également l'objet de l'invention avec l'utilisation d'une lentille globulaire hémisphérique (20) pour le traitement de zones inaccessibles à une lentille normale de 'vue vers l'avant'.
PCT/US1990/006472 1990-01-08 1990-11-05 Ensemble fibroptique de lentille submersible WO1991010474A1 (fr)

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JP3501052A JPH10511005A (ja) 1990-01-08 1990-11-05 可潜レンズファイバオプチック組立体
CA002075489A CA2075489C (fr) 1990-01-08 1990-11-05 Assemblage de fibre optique pour lentilles submersibles
DE69026960T DE69026960T2 (de) 1990-01-08 1990-11-05 Tauchanordnung mit linse und optischer faser
EP91900535A EP0510007B1 (fr) 1990-01-08 1990-11-05 Ensemble fibroptique de lentille submersible

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